Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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McKenna, Paul.
Great Golf:
(Paul McKenna, 1999).
VHS video. VHS video. Very good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-A15759
Keywords: B00004CXY7, hypnosis, sports, sport, playing golf, Paul McKenna
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Brown, David.
Blip: A Personal History of Huntingdon Town Council 1995-1999
(David Brown, Huntingdon, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. xv + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A14343
Keywords: 0953776204, town councils, town council, Huntingdon, history, local politics, local government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Labour, Cambridgeshire
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Coates, Ken and Topham, Anthony.
Industrial Democracy in Great Britain: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
(Macgibbon and Kee, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn, slightly marked dustwrapper. xxxvi + 431pp. Order No. NSBK-A14555
Keywords: 0901740888, labour, labor, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, trade unionism, industrial democracy, industrialisation, working classes, trade disputes, wages, pay, Labour Party, shop stewards
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Scrivenor, Harry.
History of the Iron Trade of Great Britain: From the Earliest Records to the Present Period
(Frank Cass, new impression of 2nd edition, 1967).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, light wear to corners, otherwise good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A15151
Keywords: 0714611506, iron trade, metals, iron trade, furnaces, history, smelting, international
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Finer, S. E.
Anonymous Empire: A Study of the Lobby in Great Britain
(Pall Mall Press, rpt., 1966).
Paperback. Lacks fly leaf, covers browned, otherwise good. xiii + 173pp. Order No. NSBK-A6073
Keywords: B0000CMY6T, political, politics, twentieth century, lobby, lobbying, lobbies, Resale Price Maintenance Bill, Finance Bill, Race Relations Bill, Bills, governments, Parliaments, Britain, British, England, English, history, laws, legal
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Rogers, Pat, ed.
Daniel Defoe: A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
(Webb and Bower, abridged version, 1989).
Abridged, illustrated. Hardback. Light soiling to dustwrapper, otherwise very good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-Z14701
Keywords: 0863502903, Daniel Defoe, tour, eighteenth century
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Warren, Geoffrey C. ed.
The Foods We Eat: A Survey of Meals, their Content and Chronology by Season, Day of the Week, Region, Class, and Age, Conducted in Great Britain by the Market Research Division of W. S. Crawford Limited
(Cassell, 1958).
A Survey by the Market Research Division of W. S. Crawford Ltd. Hardback. Very good in torn and stained dustwrapper. v + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-H14312
Keywords: B000LBZWTW, foods, nutrition, surveys, foodstuffs, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 1950s, market research, diets, regions, ages, class
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Robbins, Keith.
The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain, 1870-1975
(Longman, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 408pp. Order No. NSBK-A9399
Keywords: 0582489725, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth, twentieth, 19th, 20th, century, EEC, United Kingdom, Empire, imperialism, Commonwealth, democracy, economy, economics, European, Europe
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Barron, Hal S.
Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
(The University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. xiv + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-A12559
Keywords: 0807846597, north, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, industry, work
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